Trump Kills His Term Over His Dark Past

0:00Ben Meiselas:You can't make this stuff up, folks. Donald Trump appears to have decorated the Oval Office to look just like the office area in Jeffrey Epstein's home. I mean, just take a look at the government exhibit in the sex trafficking case against Epstein and look at the Oval Office. Oh, by the way, yesterday, Donald Trump fired the lead prosecutor in the Epstein criminal sex trafficking case and in the Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking case. It also happened to be the daughter of James Comey. That was the prosecutor, Maureen Comey. And now Donald Trump is accusing James Comey of being the real person behind the Epstein files that Comey and Obama and Biden and Clinton came up with what the Epstein files in order to hurt Donald Trump.

0:50Ben Meiselas:That's what he's going with. I'm going to do a whole other video on this this morning, but he's giving Ghislaine Maxwell now a golden ticket for a retrial because she's just going to argue, look, my sex trafficking trial was tainted because the lead prosecutor's father, according to the president of the United States, was the person responsible for the hoax against me. So you see what Donald Trump's doing. In addition, he's basically shut down any investigation into the co-conspirators of Epstein that were still ongoing. It's right in plain view what's taking place, folks. And by the way, you know, for all of these, you know, MAGA supporters like we didn't see it.

1:31Ben Meiselas:What? This is such a shock to us. Donald Trump during his campaign would give speeches and he would do them, for example, at high schools where he would talk about how, you know, he doesn't like golden showers from hookers. This is what he would say. This is at an Iowa high school during the campaign. And he would talk about getting urinated on by hookers. I mean, listen to what he says. Here, play this clip. He was with four hookers. You think that was good that night to go up and tell my wife, it's not true, darling. I love you very much. It's not true. Actually, that one she didn't believe because she said he's a germaphobe.

2:09He's not into that, you know.

2:14he's not into golden showers as they say they call it he's not i don't like that idea no i didn't i thought that would be a big problem i was gonna have a rough night but

2:26Ben Meiselas:that one she was very good on she said no and this is the guy who weaponized the epstein list against all of his political enemies this is what happened now he says oh it's a hoax created by Democrats. Well, here's what he said when he was running for office the first time. Let's play it. Bill Clinton. Nice guy. Got a lot of problems coming up, in my opinion, with the famous island with Jeffrey Epstein. You raised the question of Jeffrey Epstein in your remarks about in the Q &A. I think he's got a problem. I don't think the problem will be. I don't know. But that island was really a cesspool.

3:02There's no question about it. Just ask Prince Andrew. He'll tell you about it. The island was an absolute cesspool.

3:08Ben Meiselas:Oh, and by the way, Donald, was this you partying with Epstein? Here, let's play it.

3:21Ben Meiselas:Now, Donald Trump's approval is sinking in every category. When it comes to immigration, he's like negative 27. When it comes to the economy and inflation. He's also like, I think inflation, he's like negative 35. And Donald Trump is the least popular president at this time in presidential history. He is despised and detested. And there was this incredible moment yesterday on Fox where Jessica Tarlov, I think she's great. She confronts the other panelists who are all right-wing MAGA people with the fact she comes with receipts. Watch this incredible moment. Let's play it. Not the people that you want to be hearing from on this.

4:04I think having border crossings down to zero is an incredible achievement. The problem is, is that the rest of the immigration policy is in absolute shambles. His approval rating on immigration ranges from minus 27, that's in Gallup, to minus 19 in CNN and minus 15 in the new Quinnipiac poll that's out today. He's in the red or underwater, however you want to say it, on deportations as well, which was one of his key promises. In the CNN poll, his approved strongly number down to minus 21. It's the lowest it's been at any point in either of his administrations. Why do you think that is? Because he's not doing a good job of being president.

4:43Ben Meiselas:And watch as again, she's bringing the facts and then Greg Gutfeld and Jesse Waters basically start attacking her. Here, play this clip. She now wants to know about Epstein now that Trump's in the office. Didn't care when Biden was there. What else do you care about? Who ran the presidency? What? Did you actually care who was running the White House when Joe was in office? Did you care about that? This is such an incredible deflection. No, it's not. You brought up Epstein. We're talking about the border. You brought up Epstein. I'm talking about why this president is not doing a good job on everything from the border.

5:23You just said he was.

5:25Ben Meiselas:Closed the border permanently, Jessica. Immigration policy. Go ahead. You are conflating. No, okay. No, Jessica, you are conflating legal with illegal. I get it because he's winning on illegal. Doesn't work. Now, while all of that's going on, let me just show you how disingenuous and what frauds these MAGA Republicans are. So MAGA Republican Congresswoman Maria Salazar, she's a congresswoman from South Florida. she's Cuban her parents fled from Cuba and she represents the largest Cuban population in the country essentially is in her district and some of the surrounding districts a lot of them are represented by Cuban leaders who are Republicans who said Donald Trump is never going to go after anyone who's not a criminal if you've been here for longer than five years even if you haven't been here for five years if you're not a criminal you're good so this is the new shtick that she's doing and the MAGA Republicans are doing as Congress goes into recess.

6:27Ben Meiselas:They're going to go and say, we support the Dignity Act. We're champions for the Cuban people. You're the arsonists. You created the issue. Under former President Biden, the Cubans, the Venezuelans, the Haitians had temporary protected status. They were able to live thriving lives. And you sold them out. You said Trump wasn't going to do this. Now they're being hunted and sent to concentration camps. So here's MAGA Republican Congresswoman Salazar. And she says it with a straight face. She says it with a straight face, a wolf in sheep's clothing. Let's watch it. There's no way we can grow as a country and continue being the number one economy in the world if we don't have hands, period.

7:07So let's be intelligent. Let's just bring them out of the shadows, make them pay something that they're not paying right now. Make them pay a fine, no federal programs, and they can go home for Christmas and they can buy a home. and with the BBB, the economy is going to, is going to burst just like it happened in 2019. I go back to the president. The president is the guy who can make this happen. There is no other president like Trump. Look what he did with Iran. Look what he did with Venezuela, with China. So I have no doubt, I have faith that he could be for immigration with Lincoln was for slavery and Reagan was for communism.

7:42Just watch him.

7:43Ben Meiselas:Now that spiel by her sounds familiar. Oh yes, This is what she said back on November 11th of 2024 after the election, where she assured her constituents, you're safe. Donald Trump's not coming after you at all. Here's what she said then. Let's play this clip. 200 ,000 undocumented in your community. Is that what you're saying? I am sure that we're not that the Trump administration is not going to be targeting those people who have been here for more than five years that have American kids, that don't have criminal records, that have been working in the economy and paying taxes. I am sure that they're going to hone in on the criminals who arrived less than four years ago because I wrote the Dignity Act.

8:24And I am the first one who understands that you have to give some type of dignity to those who have been here for more than five years. People who have roots in the country, not people who are coming to commit crimes. If I can just clarify from you, have you received those kinds of details from anyone in a potential Trump administration? Because so far what we've heard is proposal for mass deportations. We have about 30 seconds left. Have you gotten those assurances? Mass deportation to those who are committing crimes who have been here for less than five years. You understand that you have millions of undocumented who are contributing with the economy and are helping our country to be a better one.

9:04Ben Meiselas:But as Democratic Congress member Eric Swalwell made clear in the hearing yesterday, we were promised that the worst would be removed. Donald Trump is going after six-year-old kids with leukemia and depriving them of the medication they need. Here, play this clip. Nobody asked for the cruel deportations that we're seeing right now. We were promised that violent criminals, the worst in our community, would be removed. I'm good with that. I don't want violent criminals who are undocumented in our community. I'll help with that. Put out a list of a thousand people. Most Americans are up for getting those folks out of our community.

9:57We were promised the worst would be removed. What we have found is that rather than focusing on the worst offenders in our community, this administration arrested a six-year-old battling leukemia and detained that six-year-old in the cruelest, harshest conditions. ICE detains six-year-old leukemia patient and his family, even though they followed every immigration rule. In detention, the children cried every night, according to the family's attorney. The woman's six-year-old son also experienced bruising and bone pain, both symptoms of leukemia, and missed an appointment related to his cancer treatment.

10:44His sister barely ate. Don't give me this Christian nonsense that I've heard from some of these witnesses. I'm a Christian. I'm a father. I'm from a law enforcement family. I was a prosecutor. This is not who we are. This is not what any American signed up for. This administration deported a four-year-old American citizen battling cancer. They arrested a U.S. marshal. They're not up for this job. They're just up for the cruelty, for owning the libs. they're not serious about protecting our communities from the worst.

11:31Ben Meiselas:Now, the grifts keep on coming with the Donald Trump and his kids. Could you imagine if this was a Hunter Biden thing? Just every day there are stories like this. So yesterday you had Don Jr. He was at the New York Stock Exchange and he was promoting this company that he was heavily involved with called Grab a Gun Digital Holdings, which began trading on the stock exchange. Well, within about a day, the stock essentially tanked. Take a look at the stock. You can see for yourself, you notice how it spikes and goes above 18. And then you see it ends below$13 a share yesterday. You see how it pumped up really high and then it decreased significantly yesterday.

12:18Ben Meiselas:What does that look like? Oh, it looks like the American economy at this point. It looks like our stock market. Like yesterday when Donald Trump's essentially all the Republicans who met with him said that Donald Trump showed them a letter that he was going to fire the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell. and then that New York Times reported what all those MAGA Republican Congress members said Trump said to them. And then when Donald Trump held that weird press conference with the Prime Minister of Bahrain, Donald Trump said, no, I'm not going to fire him. But Donald Trump said, you must be a real idiot.

12:55Ben Meiselas:I can't believe he was appointed. You were the one Donald Trump who appointed him. Here's Donald Trump before and after appointing him. Here's what Donald Trump said before and after. Let me show you this. Let's play it. He's a terrible, he's a terrible Fed chair. I was surprised he was appointed. I was surprised, frankly, that Biden put him in and extended him. But they did. Accordingly, it is my pleasure and my honor to announce my nomination of Jerome Powell to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve. I am confident that with Jay as a wise steward of the Federal Reserve. It will have the leadership it needs in the years to come.

13:39Ben Meiselas:Now, I guess also to distract from the Epstein files and his cover up there, Donald Trump posts the following yesterday. I've been speaking to Coca-Cola about using real cane sugar in Coke in the United States, and they have agreed to do so. So I'd like to thank all of those in authority at Coca-Cola. This will be a very good move by them. You'll see it's just better. Well, within about an hour, a Coca-Cola spokesperson informed Greg Blustein over in Georgia that the company appreciate Trump's enthusiasm for its brand, but did not go as far as confirming such a move. In fact, they deny that they agreed to that.

14:21Ben Meiselas:In other words, more lies from the Trump regime, more lies from the Trump regime. Finally, I'll play you out with this. Marjorie Taylor Greene describing the economy right now. I thought Donald Trump said we're living in the golden age right now. I thought he said he defeated inflation. I thought he said that he brought in$17 trillion and everything is just golden and amazing right now. Perhaps he really meant golden showers, which he talks about in high schools during his campaign. Maybe that's what he means by golden. Maybe that's why his entire Oval Office is all fake golden stuff, the most gaudy and gross looking Oval Office imaginable.

15:02Ben Meiselas:I mean, it all looks like a bunch of, I don't even want to say it. The whole Oval Office looks like pee. It looks like urine. Anyway, here's what Marjorie Taylor Greene says. Let's play it. Here's my issue, Steve. We have all-time highs of homeless people on our streets. The drug crisis in America is at all-time highs. The mental health crisis in America is at all-time highs. My kids' generation, the 20-year-olds, they can't afford rent. They can't buy a house. They can't afford insurance. They can't afford bills. And they are losing hope for the future in America. There you have it, folks. Let me know what you think.

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